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Examples:wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual—by the window (referring seats on a plane etc)—Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it—Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC—The good things in life are worth waiting for—Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the metric system—the wolf runs and the wild boar rushes (idiom); crowds of evil-doers mill around like wild beasts—Zheng state during the Warring States period—elytrum (hardened forewing of Coleoptera beetle, encasing the flight wing)—Wen Zhong (-467 BC), adviser the state of Yue during Spring and Autumn period—John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period—Shi Lang (1621-1696), Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing Dynasties—If one man holds the pass, ten thousand cannot pass (idiom); One man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies—not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according the rules—neutrophil (the most common type of white blood cell)—the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart—aisle leading the coffin chamber of an ancient tomb—the matter depends on the individual (idiom); it is a matter for your own effort—a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)—mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom); learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as the seas—Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party—a person of great moral stature does not remember the offenses committed by one of low moral stature—form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty—Xiao Yang (1938-), President of the PRC Supreme Court 1998-2008—leave office for a high and distant place (idiom); to retire and place oneself above the fray—meetings conducted by rulers in feudal China for the purpose of formalizing alliances, finalizing treaties—the Other List (Qing dynasty register of outlaws)—the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements—Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990—Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition—the three Punic wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage—the man of the moment (idiom); a prominent personality—Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist who reported on China, esp. the communist side—lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof [idiom.]—the country weakened and the people empoverished [idiom.]—classifier for long, narrow, flexible objects such as fish, dogs, pants; for roads and rivers; for human lives; in the expression: one heart, meaning working together for a common goal—classifier for people working in the same domain—lit. draw a line on the ground to keep within [idiom.]— |